Via our friend Harry Hutton, we learn that Colombia has a young policewoman who singlehandedly has destroyed vast money-counterfeiting networks in Colombia, knocking Colombia down from the rank of number one in U.S.-dollar counterfeiting to number three. Just one person’s individual work and initiative in a country long believed to have insurmountable problems. Not any more.

I read the story in Semana and my jaw dropped. Who says one person can’t make a difference?

This revolutionary has truly made a difference, not only in the preservation of the value of the U.S. currency, which is marvellous, but in enabling poor people in places like Ecuador to be able to save their earnings in U.S. dollars with less fear of counterfeiters stealing all of it. If they can save, they can invest. If they can invest, they can create wealth. If they can create wealth, they can create democratic institutions. When I was in Ecuador, the fear of counterfeiters destroying this potential sequence was a live fear.

Yes I think she’s revolutionary (Just look at her in the Semana link photo). Like the other female cops Harry tipped us off to awhile back, Colombia’s finest young people are pulling together to create a new democracy totally unrecognized from the stereotypes of Colombia of old. Impressive!

How do we thank her?